Georges Ohnet, the noted French dramatist, who is only 38 years old, narrowly escaped destroying his own fortune. He was dissatisfied with “ Le Maitre de Forges ” and threw it into the fire. Mme Ohnet snatched it from the flames, and it was this play which mads his reputation and his fortune. The London correspondent of the Pmit tells a [story of a man who went the other day into a hairdresser’s shop to be shaved; As he was being operated upon the barber said, “ I have had the honor, sir, of shaving a great man this morning, no less a person indeed than Mr Gladstone.” “ Then I wish, when you had been about it,” was the decidedly sanguinary reply, “ that you had managed to out his throat.” “Now.it is a very hextraordinary fact, sir,” said the barber, “ but you’re the sixth gentleman I've told about my shaving Mr Gladstone, and you’ve all made hexactly the same remark.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1336, 8 September 1886, Page 3
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157Untitled Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1336, 8 September 1886, Page 3
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